From my 14th floor office on Avenue of the Americas, I have a perfect view of the building that houses Fox News, Fox Business and much of the rest of Rupert Murdoch's empire. Today, the building is missing one prominent figure — Roger Ailes, the man who helped create Fox News 20 years ago and who on Thursday was forced to walk away from the job.

But I used to have a much different view, one from inside 1211 Avenue of the Americas — known during my time more than a decade ago as the News Corp building, though today it's also home to sister company 21st Century Fox. I spent two years as managing editor of FoxNews.com, and while I wish I could offer up a trove of gossip about Ailes or share some juicy insider stories, I can't. I just don't have them.

I had, in fact, but one encounter with Ailes in all my time at Fox. I shared the story on the Upstart Business Journal in 2014 after New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman came out with the book "The Loudest Voice in the Room" that sought to reveal just who Ailes was in real life. Sherman, a former reporter for Upstart's predecessor, Conde Nast Portfolio, who has proven to be Ailes' bête noire, didn't break the story about how former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson was suing Ailes for sexual harassment, but he did egg it along by talking with other women who had worked for Ailes and who also claimed inappropriate conduct by him.